Coat and hat hook



-(No Model.)

E. W..JOHNSON & E. B, MARSH.

GOAT AND HAT HOOK.

(Application filed Aug. 13, 1897.)

Patented Nov. 22, I898.

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Edward B. Marik- UNITED STATES PATENT Drums.

EVERETT W'. JOHNSON, OF BOSTON, AND EDWARD B. MARSH, OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COAT AND HAT HOOK.

srncrrrcA'rion forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,476, dated November 22, 1899.

Application filed August 13, 1897.

To all whom it rmty concern:

Be it known that we, EVERETT WV. JOHNSON, residing at Boston, (Oharlestown district,) in the county of Suffolk, and EDWARD B. MARSH, residing at Lexington, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, citizens of the United States, have invented a new and useful Goat and Hat Hook, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is in the line of coat and hat hooks in which the articles supported thereby can be easily locked in place and thereby be prevented from unwarranted removal; and it relates to simple and effective means whereby the hook is provided with a combinationlock incapable of picking, means for enabling the locking-arm to possess a large number of locking-points and thereby be capable of accommodating different quantities of garments, means for preventing the removal of the key after the hook has been unlocked, means for adapting the hook for confining umbrellas, and various other improvements in general construction. These improvements are effected by means of the construction illustrated in the drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the device through X X in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation through Y Y in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view. Fig. 4. is a detail view of the lock-tumblers, and Figs. 5 and 6 detail views of the locking-arm.

Referring to Fig. 2, Aindicatesthe hook, cast integral with and at the lower end of the casing a. The locking-arm B is pivoted at upper end of the casing by means of a pin b, passing through the casing and the hub 19. The ends of said hook and arm are formed with the flattened and rounded heads A and B, the object of which is, in the first place, to prevent any possibility of a garment hung over the end of the hook from 'being torn by the latter, to prevent a coat from being suspended by, the small loop usually provided at the neck, and, further, to retain a hat more securely in place, especially a derby. This last advantage is accomplished by the broad flattened head B refusing to fit into the corner between a hats crown and rim, and thereby preventing the hat from being worked out Serial No. 648,149. (No model.)

' stolen.

Our means for securing this device to a wall or other fixed support comprise the screws The screw S is inserted through the body of the hook and easing, but the screw S passes through the removable plate P,which is provided with the dovetail neck P,fitting in the correspondingly-formed groove 10, made in the rim of the casing a. Said groove is shown more clearly in Fig. 3. The main purpose of the said plate is to receive a number, which being also affixed to the key designates the proper hook to which the key belongs. This aids greatly in quickly finding ones garments, a glance at the key or its attached tag showing the location of the hook holding the same. In attaching the hook to a wall the plate P is first screwed thereto, and then the groove 13 of the casing is applied to the dovetail neck thereof and pressed up into the position shown in Fig. 2. This causes the screw S of the plate to entirely conceal said screw and to so mystify any thief that he, knowing there must be other fastenings besides the one visible screw S, would not attempt to remove the hook bodily from the wall.

Our means for locking the arm B comprise the broad toothed segment a and the plu ral'ity of dogs or tumblers D, engaging the same. The arm B being preferably of cast-brass or what is termed composition metal we form the segments of steel and provide it with a dovetail rib 0', held by a dovetail groove in the arm 0, which is cast integral with the hub 17 and the arm B.

The tumblers D are all mounted on the pin d and are each pressed into engagement with the toothed segment cby means of a leafspring E, held by the post 6. Five is the preferable number of these tumblers, and of course five is the number of said springs for the same. .As indicated in Fig. 4:, these turnblers vary in length, so that only one at a time will engage a tooth of the segment 0. Hence if there were but a single tooth on said segment the locking-arm B would have five different locking-points, one for each tumbler; but inasmuch as said segment is formed with a plurality of teeth, or four, as shown, the arm B has five times four, or twenty locking-points. This multiplication of lockingpoints enables this hook to possess a wide capacity, ranging from a single thin coat to several heavy garments and a hat or two additional.

In Fig. 2 the front pawl is shown as hiding the remaining pawls, while in Fig. 4: the front pawl is not so shown. The object of this dissimilarity is twofold-first, to render the parts in Fig. 2 less liable to confusion in showing by a multiplicity of lines, and, further, to more fully illustrate the permutation referred to below, which is done by simply shuffling for the different locks the otherwise exactly similar pawls. Fig. 4 therefore illustrates the same pawls as are supposed to be psed in Fig. 2, but rearranged for a second ock.

The key K is here shown as inserted with its web uppermost, the object of which will be shown later on. The key being turned toward the right its wards engage the tumblers D and press them out of the reach of the toothed segment. As soon as this is done the tension-sprin g F, which is held at its lower end by the pin d and at its upper end by the arm O, throws the locking-arm B up and away from the hook and leaves the latter in shape to receive whatever garments are wished to be placed thereon. To give this look the combination or permutation character, the face or bridge of the keys web 7c is indented or stepped and the parts of the tumblers D engaged by the same are suitably filed away until no matter what are the variations in the face of the web the points D of the tumblers shall be moved the same distance away from the segment 0 and the teeth of the latter wholly cleared from possible engagement by said tumblers.

In actual practice we usually form but five different conformations of tumblers in manufacturing a quantity of these garment-hooks, the desired permutation being obtained by simple differences in arrangement of the tumblers in the various looks.

The reason for the upturned position of the key referred to above is to enable the key to be non-removable from the device when the arm B is in its unlocked position, the key being removable only after the said arm has been depressed to its garmen t-securing point. This is to prevent the absent-minded customer of the establishment provided with these garment-hooks from removing the key and dropping it into his pocket when he takes his hat and coat. To accomplish this, the keyhole a is located at such a point that when the tumblers D have been raised and the arm B flies up the segment 0 descends into the field of the keys web, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and thereby prevents the key from returning to its keyhole-slot (1- The key cannot be rotated in an opposite direction, both on account of the shoulders D of the tumblers against which it impinges and also, were these shoulders not provided, on account of the insufficient space between the keyhole and the casing-wall a This is not the primary object of said shoulders D, however, their main purpose being to prevent the key from being turned farther than necessary for the proper disengagement of the tumblers. lVithout said shoulders or some other stop the key would, in nine times out of ten, be turned too far and the tumblers permitted to snap back against the segment. Now when a coat is placed upon the hook and the arm B depressed the latter would look all right, but upon the attempt to remove the key it would be unlocked and would fly up again, necessitating another attempt. As it is now the position of the shoulders D is such and the engaging faces D of the tumblers so curved that said faces are enabled to act upon the key-web after the tumblers have been lifted and impress the said web up and back far enough to permit the tumblers to rest against the segment 0. During the interval, however, the locking-arm B has flown up and the hook A left free for the reception of the key-operators garments, which latter being put in place the arm B can be depressed and the key removed without further delay. To prevent the locking-arm B from flying up farther than is needed for the application of the garments to the hook A, the casing a is formed with a stop (1 against which the arm 0 is adapted to come to rest.

As shown in Fig. 1, the lower end of the tension-spring F is anchored to the pin d,- while the upper extremity is attached to the arm 0, or preferably to a finger f, projecting from the hub Z), beside said arm 0. This latter construction is shown more clearly in Fig. 5, where the width of the arm Cis seen to be less than that of the huh 12, leaving ample room for said finger f, into whose eye f is hooked the end of the spring F.

To enable this garment-hook to be capable of locking umbrellas also, the casing a is formed with two lateral projections g, between which is a notch G of suitable size to receive an umbrella-stick. From the locking-arm B projects a supplemental arm 11, so curved downward and backward as to pass across the open mouth of the notch G when said arm B is in its locking position; but when the arm B is unlocked and rises the supplemental arm l-I swings forward and leaves the notch G free for the reception of the umbrella. It is of course evident that the same motion that depresses the arm B to look a hat and coat upon the hook A causes the supplemental arm H to close the notch G and fasten securely the umbrella placed therein.

In actual practice too IIO

it is the best plan to first hang the garments and hat upon the hook A and then with the left hand insert the u mbrella-stick within the notch G, while with the right hand the locking-arm B is lowered and the key removed. As a further improvement to this umbrellaholding attachment we attach to the casing or to the wall immediately below the same a canvas bag or tube R open at the top and adapted to receive any umbrella which may be locked into the coat and hat hook. The lower end of this bag R preferably terminates in a drip-cup R, made of metal and designed both for receiving any moisture from the umbrella and also to prevent the umbrella-stick from punching a hole through the bag. To aid in the ease of insertion into the bag, its mouth is usually encircled with a metallic ring R Fig. 6 shows roughening of heads A B to prevent withdrawal of unusually thin articles.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows, to wit:

1. The combination with the garment-hook, of the pivoted locking-arm having a tooth rigidly connected therewith, a plurality of dogs or tumblers adapted to engage said tooth, said tumblers differing slightly in length and formed with differently-contoured key-engaging faces, and the key adapted to contact with all of said tumblers and release them from engagement with said locking-arm tooth, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the garment-hook, the casing connected therewith, the pivoted locking-arm, the screw for fastening the lower part of said casing to a wall, the number-plate having the perforated neck and the screw for fastening the same to the wall, and means whereby said casing can be secured to said plate after the latter has been screwed to the wall, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of the garment-hook and the casing, the pivoted locking-arm having the toothed segment less in width than the interior of the casing, the dogs or tumblers engaging said segment, the pin upon which said dogs are pivoted, the tension-spring anchored at one-end to said pin beside said dogs, and the finger rigidly connected with said locking-arm and having the eye receiving the other end of said spring, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing invention we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 11th day of August, in the year EVERETT W. JOHNSON. P. s.] EDWARD B. MARSH. L. 8.]

Witnesses:

F. E. CALLER, A. B. UPHAM. 

